PHILADELPHA INQIUIRER: …[Veterinarian Elizabeth] Morgan knocked the trustees for accepting the NCAA-imposed sanctions, for swallowing the report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh that blamed Penn State leaders for a cover-up, for paying out nearly $60 million to Sandusky victims, yet sparing the charity where he groomed his targets.
“Three years ago, you fired an employee of 61 years of service for a failure of leadership,” she said of coach Joe Paterno. “I suggest that most of you should have been fired long ago.”
As critics, including the state treasurer and Senate majority leader, continue their courtroom attacks against the Freeh report and the NCAA – hearings are scheduled for early 2015 – Penn State president Eric Barron last month did the once-unthinkable: He agreed to review the Freeh report, cracking the door for those who have been pushing for the board to repudiate the findings, including that Paterno, former president Graham B. Spanier, and two former administrators conspired to cover up the sex abuse by the assistant football coach… (more)
It should be obvious to even someone who doesn’t have any strong feelings about PSU or Joe Paterno such as myself that what was really going on was political opportunism from Corbett to oust Spanier from PSU. I mean how many years had Sandusky been retired, how many years had PA’s Dept. of Public Welfare been placing juveniles in Sandusky’s custody, how many years did Corbett take to make an arrest after allegations were made?
This is not how child sexual abuse is investigated in most normal jurisdictions. Whatever games Corbett was playing as AG and Governor it meant that Sandusky went free to abuse other children. Corbett’s legacy, not Paterno’s.
Pennsylvania’s legacy of corruption and politics over public safety was safe under Corbett.